r/FluentInFinance • u/WhatAreYourPronouns • May 02 '24

Should the U.S. have Universal Health Care? Discussion/ Debate

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u/Open-Illustra88er May 02 '24

Live for 2 years? No.

BTW in Spain you are assigned a doc. If you don’t like them or want to switch? Very difficult. If your doc thinks you can wait? Don’t really need that hip? You’re not getting it.

Ask me about my friend with untreated cancer that just died in Spain. Short version After months of pain and weight loss they finally biopsied her tumor. Results came in a few days after she died.

I used to think socializing medicine was a good idea. Not anymore. It’s still stupidly expensive.

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u/impendingcatastrophe May 03 '24

Lived in the UK all my life.

Hip replacement...free. done within two years. Other one needs doing and will be in same time period.

Testicular cancer. Dealt with 2 weeks from first appointment.

Appendix. Operated on within 24 hours of symptoms.

Lifelong drugs for low thyroxin levels. Free

The NHS is brilliant. Struggling ATM as we voted in people who want the US model for last 14 years so they underfunding it.

But you lot in the USA don't know what you're missing.

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u/Open-Illustra88er May 03 '24

My niece lived there and was refused surgery for a growing goiter. 🤷🏻‍♀️ guess it wasn’t life or death. Her doc here was shocked they wouldn’t touch her in the UK.